James Cracknell

James Edward Cracknell is a British rowing and endurance athlete born May 5, 1972, a double Olympic gold medalist and six time world champion in rowing. He won gold in the coxless four at both the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Olympics, added six World Championship gold medals in the coxless four and coxless and coxed pairs between 1997 and 2002, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2005. He later became known as an endurance athlete, rowing the Atlantic, undertaking South Pole expeditions and running marathons, survived a serious cycling accident in 2010 that caused a traumatic brain injury, became an advocate for cycling helmet safety afterward, and competed in the 2019 Boat Race at age 46 as its oldest ever competitor while studying human evolution at Cambridge.